Brickfrog

Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it’s happened before with that software

https://rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0

Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.

Granted I have not used it in a while but I’d be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.

https://github.com/rejetto/hfs

That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.

Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.

If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn’t have to worry about this).

If you’re doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

Keep an eye out for open trackers

https://opentrackers.org/

!opensignups@lemmy.ml

!opensignups@lemmy.world

!opensignups@noworriesto.day

Or keep an eye on the invite giveaway thread in !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Or interview for the big music trackers and work your way up the ranks to participate in their internal tracker recruitment threads e.g. https://interviewfor.red and https://interview.orpheus.network

PS - Trackers like TL tend to do open signups a few times a year so it’s not really that difficult to get going once you catch an open signup.

It depends on the instance, you just have to try different instances until you find one that works for you. For what it’s worth I’ve found that dbzer0 works okay with Tor Browser.

Sucks but not surprising. Broadcom has a history of doing things like this, ugh. Even with their paid products they jack up the price so much that the only customers that stick around are the business enterprise types that are locked in & can’t easily migrate for various reasons.

since I don’t believe the qbt executable is signed.

Yup you are correct, another reason that anti-virus/malware type software will mess with the download or execution of the installer.

Based on the current info that’s kind of my initial hunch. The installer could crash if the user’s anti-virus/malware messed with it. We also don’t know if there is other software installed on the system doing things like that…

Otherwise, ruling out other things could be just that Windows itself is possibly borked. The sfc / dism method may fix that. Installers definitely crash when something is wrong with the Windows OS.

What version of Windows? Is this a normal install of Windows or did you do anything different/custom?

Assuming Windows 10/11 try disabling Real-time protection (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / Real-time protection) at least temporarily during the install.

Also disable any other anti-virus/malware type software you have.

With all of that disabled re-download qBittorrent from the normal download sources https://www.qbittorrent.org/download

When you attempt to run the setup make sure to run it as administrator so it is elevated (do a shift right-click on the setup.exe file & select Run as administrator).

If the install finally works, before you re-enable Real-time protection you should add the installed qbittorrent.exe in the Windows Defender Exclusions and Controlled folder access (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / add or remove exclusions) and (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage ransomware protection / Allow an app through Controlled folder access). The installed qbittorrent is probably in C:\Program Files\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe or wherever your programs are normally installed.

If none of that worked then I’d go with the other commenters, run RAM and hard drive diagnostics & make sure that’s all working correctly.

Or maybe your Windows OS install is broken somehow, I’d run sfc and dism in those cases (a bit outside of scope of this community but you can search around for that).

That sounds correct. AFAIK most countries in the world do not do credit card AVS (address verification service) so aside from a select few countries you would be able to enter just about any address for those country’s cards.

e.g. related discussion https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/11979/in-what-countries-can-credit-card-merchants-use-address-verification or just search the internet for other sources.

The one catch is the card would have to be from that country that doesn’t support AVS e.g. for India I think you are saying that you used an India based card, right?

Most people just use a NAS (self built or one of the pre-built types) & stuff a bunch of hard drives into it. Or just stuff a bunch of hard drives into their desktop(s).

Sure there are people outfitting rack(s) of server(s) but generally that’s just the truly dedicated people going that route.

For what it’s worth hard drives nowadays go up to ~22TB so your 34TB example would only need two massive hard drives. A compact NAS or small desktop would work fine for that example.

auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

qB already has that, see Tools / Options / BitTorrent / “Automatically add these trackers to new downloads”

I don’t use that feature but it seems to be there.

Probably OBS would be your first try, it should be able to do a video capture and is Linux compatible.

Or if you’re willing to set up a VM running Windows you could look into the non-free closed-source stream rippers for 720p/1080p. e.g. RedFox AnyStream, DVDFab StreamFab, etc.

EDIT: Just realized AnyStream also has Linux builds so that could be a non-free closed-source solution.

qBittorrent tends to be the popular one but all the standard FOSS clients should work fine with Sonarr (e.g. qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission).

I don’t have Transmission in front of me here to give you specific guidance but auth failed basically means you should double-check Transmission’s web ui user/password/port number & make sure it’s the same both there & in Sonarr. The same would apply for any other torrent client you want to set up in Sonarr.